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October 30, 2024
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Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems
by Jonathan Foley, Ph.D.
I’ll admit it: I like beef. Like many Americans, I was brought up to believe that beef was a central part of a traditional family meal. My mom made it. My kids ate it. Marketing campaigns told me it was healthy. Everywhere I went, I saw Americans eating lots of it. And for many years, I didn’t question these choices.
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August 15, 2024
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Regenerative grazing
Regenerative grazing is overhyped as a climate solution. We should do it anyway.
by Jonathan Foley, Ph.D.
Animal agriculture has a climate problem.
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August 1, 2024
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Are livestock feed additives the future or folly?
by Eric Toensmeier
In 2022, I gave a presentation about climate change solutions to the Canadian Parliament. During that meeting, I had the opportunity to hear a presentation from a beef producers group about how they intended to rely on a new synthetic methane inhibitor (not approved in Canada at the time) as the heart of efforts to curb their greenhouse gas emissions. 
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July 10, 2024
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Fixing food’s big climate problem
by Jonathan Foley, Ph.D.
It surprises many people to learn that the food we eat, the farms that grow it, and the landscapes we’ve cleared all contribute to climate change. And contribute in a big way.
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Video  | April 2, 2024
Food matters: Why climate change may hinge on what we eat and how we grow it
To stop climate and build a sustainable future, food matters – a lot! What we eat and how we grow it is responsible for around 20–35% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. 
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Perspective  | March 26, 2024
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How food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth
by Jonathan Foley, Ph.D.
Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm and eat.More than any other invention in human history, agriculture has radically transformed civilization and our relationship with the natural world.How did this happen?
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February 7, 2024
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Room to grow: Identifying the best ways to boost crop yield
by James Gerber, Ph.D.
The global food system isn’t broken, yet it needs fixing. 
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